Thank You, Marlene Wurfel, for inviting us to present to your Editing students at Grant MacEwan University. We discussed “editing with and through the senses,” the basis of our publishing venture, Laberinto Press (www.laberintopress.com) A chance to “Think about our work” before “doing the work.”

Argentinian Sculptor Lola Mora working on her fountain The Nereids (1902) Mora’s work, like Alfonsina provoked the scorn and judgement of Argentina’s society at the time. The Nereids and its background story is part of my WIP memoir #DaughtersoftheCurrent

Trigger warning: Suicide. “The Guadalquivir” from #DaughtersoftheCurrent My body feels every increase in temperature as if tightening a tourniquet around my throat. As we are packing for our return to Madrid, I blurt out “I want to die.” For a second, I think of jumping into the Guadalquivir.

Córdoba, Spain, July 2022: The miasma floats over the Roman Temple where the Mosque was built, the Church that replaced both, and the seminaries, the police stations built under Franco. At Communion, the girls become majas and the boys, little military men. Everybody aspires to be a grandee. #DotC

Juana is passenger number 72806, and travels in the 1st. class carriage of Ferrocarril del Sud. As a piece meal worker, she would probably load the packages of embroidered baby clothes herself that way avoiding the tip for the porters that would eat into her wages. #DaughtersoftheCurrent

Congratulations, my dear Bianca, on successfully defending your doctoral thesis! Dr. Bianca M Sacchi is in the house. 🎉🥂 Your great grandmother —a maid and embroiderer—would have been so proud! #DaughtersoftheCurrent #WomeninSTEM

There is nothing like reading from your WIP to that friend who has witnessed your many incarnations as art educator, poet (Thank You for publishing my debut chapbook) publisher, and cnf author. #AdrianaOnita, loved sharing our words today. #DaughtersoftheCurrent #friendship #poetry #cnf #summer #yeg

I remember my grandmother applying bright coral red lipstick and jet black eyebrow pencil to face the world after her cancer diagnosis, like a mask, something Alfonsina also did in her last years. A mask, a potent tool for women to stoically endure incurable disease in twentieth century Argentina.

As a seven year old I was obsessed by her drowning in the waters of Mar del Plata because of a song that glorified her suicide as a trip down the ocean, an underwater playground. In 2024 I confronted that childhood illusion, walking Alfonsina’s final steps. #DaughtersoftheCurrent

The pleasure was all mine, #SomeoneEditions!

Argentinian poet Alfonsina Storni threw herself in the waters of La Perla Beach, Mar del Plata in 1937 because the pain derived from her metastasized breast cancer was unbearable. Today, Argentinian scientists captured the creatures of those same waters for the 1st time. #DaughtersoftheCurrents

It is not just the excitement of receiving the envelope-chapbooks from our collaboration with #Mari-LouRowley #DeborahBarnett and her #FrenchLetterSociety, it is the surprise at the connection between this project and my memoir #DaughtersoftheCurrent I have limited edition copies available.

“I rose early, and barefoot/I went down the hallways/went down toward the gardens/and kissed the plants.” Alfonsina Storni from her poem “Saturday” (Translation mine)

“Hear me: I was a dormant sea.
You woke me up and the tempest erupted.
I agitate my waves, I sink my ships,
I climb up to the sky and punish the stars,
I blush with shame and hide inside my folds,
I go mad and kill my fish.
Do not look at me with fear. You wanted this.” Alfonsina Storni

“it seems to me something will be revealed. I go back in time.” The Park. Alfonsina Storni.
“Paréceme que algo va a serme revelado.Retrocedo en el tiempo.” El parque. Alfonsina Storni.

“I was a dormant sea” wrote Argentinian poet Alfonsina Storni. Follow along as I share with you my translations of her poetry, a central part of my memoir, Daughters of the Current.

In praise of shorter books.

Thank You to New Trail, University of Alberta’s magazine for the feature.